Digital Studio - November 2017

The winner takes it all and some! That was evident from the applause that winners of the 2nd Digital Studio India Channel Partner Awards received. What was particularly striking is that for an event in its 2nd year, the response to the awards was spectacular.
And well, permit us a bit of immodesty, because as part of our strategy to improve industry engagement, we undertook several new initiatives this time around; and it clicked! For starters, we created digitalstudioawards.com with detailed information about the awards, categories, eligibility, and nomination process. Additionally, our team worked tirelessly to encourage people to upload their nominations on the site directly. Aware that our audience is spread across various networks, including social media channels, we leveraged on our strong online presence to reach out to them, which helped us get over 120 nominations in toto.
After the first round of elimination to disqualify nomination forms with insufficient and incorrect information, the remainder was shared with our jury members. This comprised industry veterans from the broadcasting, film and post-production domains, who handpicked the winners. And it was not an easy task for them, since they had to sift through, and deliberate over, these for a long time.
You can read more about this transparent mechanism for selecting the champions as well as the award winners in our cover story. This time around, we introduced several new categories, based on the feedback we received during our debut event last year.
What was interesting was that at the awards the nominees who did not win were as dignified as the winners were graceful in accepting their trophies. Everyone let their accomplishments do the talking, which speaks volumes about the wisdom and objectivity of this industry.
We, at Digital Studio, would once again like to congratulate all the winners. And to everyone else who almost made it, better luck next time!